Sawstop requisiat en pace

[Larry Blanchard]

Anybody get the idea we've beat this topic to death?

Did anyone change their opinion?

We've all had a good rant, how about moving on?

[-MIKE-]

Or you could simply stop reading it. Worked for me.

[Dave Balderstone]

It's called a killfile, Larry. Why not use one rather than start ANOTHER freaking thread about the SawStop?

[Leon]

I just sprayed my screen!

[HeyBub]

There are many good, logical, and heartfelt reasons for both sides of the argument. By my last count, there were 63 opposed and 48 in favor. As soon as I finish the tabulation, I'll post the summaries here so we can winnow out the good from the merely preferable.

Participation will be encouraged.

[Dan Grebinski]

If you would have been using a SprayStop MonitorT, that tragedy could have been avoided.

[Larry Jaques]

That or a big and a gag.

-- Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. -- Thomas Jefferson

[Dave]

Guess you should have invested in a MonitorSprayStop. Now it's too late and you're going to suffer for life with this embarrassment. :)

[Larry Jaques]

Hey, who changed my text? Supposed to be "a bib and a gag."

-- Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. -- Thomas Jefferson

[Max]

Then we can start on the Radial Arm saws and whether they need SawStop?

Max

[krw]

Oh, they should be banned outright. It's for the children!

[Lee Michaels]

Not to worry.

Radial arms saws have already been demonized. They are politically incorrect. Anybody who uses them or admits liking them is immediately publically shamed and ridiculed.

[krw]

I have one, but it hasn't been used in at least 18 years. I just got the "safety kit" for it, so I'll probably put it back together some time in the next 20. ;-)

[Max]

"Shame On Me"

Max

[RonB]

I'm thinkin' we need government control of box knives.

I cut myself with one once.

RonB

[Max]

I had to laugh at that. The only shop injury I've ever incurred was when I was cutting a plastic panel (with a "box knife") to install in a skylight. Put a nasty gash in my thumb. That was 25 years ago. And under the influence of 3 Michelobs.

Max

[RicodJour]

I was finishing up a custom snap-in grid for a Pella patio door, the photographer set to arrive the next morning to take pictures for a contest entry the next morning, and about 3am I filleted my thumb with a razor knife. "Oh shit", says I, and slapped a strip of paper towel and some masking tape on it, and finished the job. Didn't get any ligaments, but I still have a semi-numb area on the back of my thumb.

I wish I healed now as quickly as I did then.

R

[Han]

RicodJour wrote in news:87fde6f7-e63e-46e8-8a73- [e-mail]:

I second the motion ...

[RonB]

I think the thing that really made me think of the box knife was a neighbor from years ago. He was a foreman, and part owner, of an up and coming small business in the Wichita area. He was cutting some stock with a box knife and straight-edge and it slipped and nearly cut his thumb off. He had surgery and ran around in a brace and sling for weeks and finally got all of the apparatus taken off.

A week later - repeat performance.

This time the company president told him sharp instruments were off- limits for him if he wanted to continue to be a partner. Their insurance rates wouldn't tolerate any more.

I did nick myself pretty good with a box knife years ago; but every time I get lined up to do a deep cut I think of Randy. He has probably save dme from injury more times than he can imagine.

RonB

[Larry Jaques]

What about paper? Millions of people are scarred for life from paper cuts each year. And don't get me started on DHMO...

-- Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. -- Albert Einstein